Riding the confidence of last week's stunning 63-45 win over then-No. 17 North Carolina State in the Dreyfus Holiday Festival final, St. John's hung with mighty Syracuse for most of the first half. The Red Storm led 26-25 with 5:07 left in the first half before finally succumbing to the Big East preseason favorite. Comment.

The blaze was said to be under control an hour and a half later and three firefighters suffered minor injuries, according to fire officials. The fire spread to three buildings connected to the home where the fire originated, fire officials said.

Shandu Marks, 21, of 138-60 234th St. pleaded guilty in September to criminally negligent homicide and was sentenced in Queens County Supreme Court. Driving with his lights off at night in 2003 near 226th Street and 138th Avenue in Laurelton, the man̵

In Parkside Hills, Tilak Fonseka waited all week for news about his cousins and friends back home in Sri Lanka, where the death toll has exceeded 18,000. Wherever we looked in Queens we found residents and immigrant communities that have been profoundly s

Our thoughts are with the Queens residents who have lived in horror not knowing the fate of relatives and loved ones in the countries that were devastated by the tsunami. According to a published report, 43,000 Bangladeshis call Astoria home and 68,300 In

On Dec. 27, 1657, the town clerk, the sheriff and several magistrates of Flushing wrote a letter to Governor Peter Stuyvesant in which they declared that they refused to follow his direction banning entry to a new religious movement known as the Quakers o

We can only hope that Rev. Flake’s decision will serve as a wake-up call for Tom Manton and the Queens Democratic Party machine, which has long taken the borough’s African-American vote for granted. Flake is pastor of the largest and most infl

This mega-corporation has more than 3,500 stores and 1.3 million employees. As the United States’ largest retailer and largest employer, Wal-Mart is a driving force in setting wage standards wherever its stores are located. Despite nearly $9 billion

Naturalists can argue that mankind thins its ranks through its harsh treatment of its own. Yet evolution has brought us to the pinnacle of successes in medicine and discoveries that open the very heavens to our exploration. Remarkably, the more advances w

Bush has made enemies, but like he said, “sometimes you’re defined by your critics.” He has made hard decisions and has seen some of them pay off - like the election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai (and hopefully democracy will flourish

Thoughtful Republicans looking for a winner in 2008 will look at Rudy Guiliani’s overall record. The same is true for all Americans looking for a strong new president to take the helm in January 2009. Giuliani is a profile in courage. He is independ

The reality is that for at least the last 10 years, our area of Queens has been plagued by the development of so called McMansions that simply do not maintain the character of the neighborhood in which I grew up and that I want my children to grow up in.

Brad Washington, 18, also known as “Brad Perry” and “LB,” entered the hospital shortly after midnight and left at about 7 a.m., police said. He allegedly shot and killed 35-year-old Robert Jarvis of South Jamaica after a dispute at

The film, an update of the 1976 John Carpenter movie, features Whitestone native Drea de Matteo, Jamaica rapper-turned-actor Ja Rule and Jackson Heights comedian John Leguizamo. The three, along with others, find themselves working together despite coming